germ warfare bacteriological warfare | the use of harmful bacteria as a weapon |
microbe bug germ | a minute life form (especially a diseaseausing bacterium), the term is not in technical use |
germ layer | (embryology) any of the layers of cells differentiated in embryos following gastrulation |
wheatworm wheat eel wheat eelworm Tylenchus tritici | small roundworm parasitic on wheat |
wheat future | wheat bought or sold at an agreed price for delivery at a specified future date |
pale yellow straw wheat | a variable yellow tint, dull yellow, often diluted with white |
germ | a small apparently simple structure (as a fertilized egg) from which new tissue can develop into a complete organism |
germ plasm plasm | the protoplasm of the germ cells that contains chromosomes and genes |
reproductive cell germ cell sex cell | a spermatozoon or an ovum, a cell responsible for transmitting DNA to the next generation |
source seed germ | anything that provides inspiration for later work |
germ theory | (medicine) the theory that all contagious diseases are caused by microorganisms |
wheat flour | flour prepared from wheat |
whole wheat flour graham flour graham whole meal flour | flour made by grinding the entire wheat berry including the bran, (`whole meal flour' is British usage) |
wheat gluten | gluten prepared from wheat |
cracked-wheat bread | bread made with cracked wheat that has been ground fine |
dark bread whole wheat bread whole meal bread brown bread | bread made with whole wheat flour |
puffed wheat | puffy wheat berries |
bulgur bulghur bulgur wheat | parched crushed wheat |
wheat wheat berry | grains of common wheat, sometimes cooked whole or cracked as cereal, usually ground into flour |
cracked wheat | grains of wheat that have been crushed into small pieces |
wheat germ | embryo of the wheat kernel, removed before milling and eaten as a source of vitamins |
Weissbier white beer wheat beer | a general name for beers made from wheat by top fermentation, usually very pale and cloudy and effervescent |
wheatfield wheat field | a field planted with wheat |
germ pore | a pore in the outer wall of a spore or pollen grain through which the germ tube or pollen tube makes its exit on germination |
germ tube | (botany) a slender tubular outgrowth from a spore in germination |
wheatgrass wheat-grass | a grass of the genus Agropyron |
crested wheatgrass crested wheat grass fairway crested wheat grass Agropyron cristatum | Eurasian grass grown in United States great plains area for forage and erosion control |
wheat | annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains |
wheat berry | a grain of wheat |
durum durum wheat hard wheat Triticum durum Triticum turgidum macaroni wheat | wheat with hard darkolored kernels high in gluten and used for bread and pasta, grown especially in southern Russia, North Africa, and northern central North America |
soft wheat | wheat with soft starch kernels used in pastry and breakfast cereals |
common wheat Triticum aestivum | widely cultivated in temperate regions in many varieties for its commercially important grain |
emmer starch wheat two-grain spelt Triticum dicoccum | hard red wheat grown especially in Russia and Germany, in United States as stock feed |
wild wheat wild emmer Triticum dicoccum dicoccoides | found wild in Palestine, held to be prototype of cultivated wheat |
wheat rust Puccinia graminis | rust fungus that attacks wheat |
wheat flag smut Urocystis tritici | fungus affecting leaves and stems of wheat |
wheat scab | a disease of the heads of wheat plants |
wheaten whole-wheat wholemeal | of or relating to or derived from wheat, wheaten bread |